Plus: Tokyo Bay has been closed for some work; SoulCycle benefit for Bogardus Plaza; nail salon moved across the street; is BMCC off limits?
Plus: Best Market signage; news from Tribeca Beauty Spa; BMCC faculty art exhibit; the winners of Soho Photo's annual Krappy Kamera Competition. / 18 comments
Plus: Hearings about helicopter noise; food drive at Tribeca Tap House; Pen Parentis holiday soirée; the Horticultural Society's Green Bean Holiday Bash.
Plus: This trend of parking half on the sidewalk; Lot 77 café appears to have closed; architecture critic Paul Goldberger; toy drive; exhibit of city-inspired art. / 2 comments
Plus: Artists camping on Broadway; pricing and food at iPic Seaport cinema; DOH visit to Taste of the Seaport; Pier A public seating; new American Cuts; Marc Murphy opens in Tampa; "Laguna Beach" star moving here; new FiDi fitness roundup; thumbprint carpets.
Discussed: Rosa Mexicano on Murray Street; BMCC rep on the school's future; a row of bike racks proposed for Duane Street; Atera's basement lounge; one-day pedestrian plaza on W. Broadway; Manhattan Yacht Club can't catch a break. / 1 comment
Plus: Opening forecast for the BMCC pool; new kosher deli; Gelsey Kirkland's ballet school moving to DUMBO; Collect Pond Park update; custom T-shirts.
If Related Companies succeeds in its plan to move the BMCC campus, we could end up with a wall of glass buildings like the dreadful Trump ones on the Upper West Side. / 30 comments
Plus: Timeline for the latest big Broadway condominium; Henrybuilt opening on Crosby; is N. Moore conversion stalled?; "Where in Tribeca...?" still unanswered; R & Company exhibits; a rave for "Hedwig." / 4 comments
Plus: Tonight's Community Board 1 meeting postponed; BMCC pool update; "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"; Front Art Space show. / 1 comment
Plus: Auction at Josephine; fireworks tonight for New Year's Eve; dispiriting news about the BMCC swimming pool. / 3 comments
I keep a journal of odd/amusing interactions—akin to the New York Times’s “Metropolitan Diary,” but less fit for print. / 8 comments
As I see it, it all matters. A civilized city should have good solutions to all of these issues. — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
With Paper Source now closed inside Maman, where are people buying greeting cards/wrapping paper locally? (I want to avoid Hobby... — Sara / Seen & Heard: Maman is back open
I prefer the stickers to homeless, junkies, and excrement from dogs or humans. Focus on what matters maybe? — Thomas / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Agreed about the sidewalk stickers, along with the painted on / sprayed on sidewalk ads and "clever" saying. Also, what... — Marcus / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
Those sidewalk stickers are a new out of home ad treatment; they are everywhere, they are hideous and yes, they... — nichole / Seen & Heard: PopUp Bagels facade revealed!
I love this interview. What that NC senatorial candidate said about Morris -- that he captured her voice uniquely well... — Komanoff / TCQ&A: Morris Katz
a reminder to parents and care givers: Duane Park Patisserie gives homemade treats to trick or treaters from toddlers through... — madeline c lanciani / Halloween in Washington Market Park — and more to come